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IMF Data

International Monetary Fund · Open & public data

The IMF's statistical portal for World Economic Outlook, fiscal, balance-of-payments, reserves and price datasets with SDMX 2.1 and 3.0 APIs

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

scite

Scite LLC (Research Solutions) · Literature discovery & review

Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

gretl

gretl developers (Allin Cottrell, Riccardo Lucchetti) · Econometrics & causal inference

Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

SSRN

Elsevier · Research dissemination

Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read

ProprietaryFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

Bloomberg Terminal

Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data

Bloomberg's subscription workstation for market data, news, analytics, messaging and execution, with Excel integration and the BLPAPI library for C++, Java, .NET and Python

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseLocalNov 2, 2026

Connected Papers

Connected Papers · Literature discovery & review

Visual literature-exploration tool that builds a similarity graph of papers around a seed paper, with prior and derivative works lists

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit (Litmap Limited) · Literature discovery & review

Literature-discovery app that grows collections of papers through citation and author networks and recommends related work, with a free-forever tier

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Consensus

Consensus · Literature discovery & review

AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026